In 2024, Python climbed to 18% in the Tiobe index of programming languages, which rates how widely a language is used. The only other language to achieve that number was Java, back in 2016.

Python holds the highest share of interest in a programming language in decades Not since 2001, the year the TIOBE Index started, has a programming language held such a large percentage of ...

The Python creator wanted the language to be more nimble than the lumbering giant it is. Van Rossum wanted it to be twice as fast but Mark Shannon, one of the key contributors to CPython (or Core ...